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Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.
Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?
After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
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##我並不很喜歡沃爾特.艾薩剋森，以前看過其喬布斯傳（中文），達芬奇傳（有聲書），總的來說，中規中矩。 然就本書而言，通過傳記故事的方式，學到很多生化知識，體驗象牙塔裏的科研生活，還是很有收獲。 最難忘懷的情節是他對Watson和其兒子的訪問，可惜太短，畢竟是枝節。 人物傳記，盡管是著名人物，要寫齣史詩感，張力十足也不容易。
評分##作為對科技新聞有一定關注的讀者，我是覺得傳記大拿的這本新書略略有點水、有點散呀……可能書中紀事我多少有些瞭解，所以讀來新鮮感不強。而厚厚近600頁感覺有點四不像——既不是傳記、也不是新聞調查；有點像在翻資料匯編，又有點像在刷公眾號。 不過也不難看。最留下印象的幾點： ➊用生物學詞匯mosaic來形容人性的復雜多麵嚮，a better description than grayscale； ➋第一次瞭解到biohackers（書中以Josiah Zayner為代錶）這個群體。如何看待citizen science（民科）？ ➌作者引用Michael Sandel教授關於“playing god”的論述； ➍D與C兩位女科學傢漸行漸遠（不是鬧翻）的友誼（研究閤作與私交兩個層麵）。
評分##roadtrip上聽完瞭有聲書 比預計的更有意思更drama crispr齣來的時候 很多報道podcast采訪 biotech/genes也hype很久瞭 但都知道瞭些皮毛 這本書聽完纔覺得真的懂瞭些 science確實是很competitive的field 特彆是這些lab類的 發文章cycle還算快 就真的是分秒必爭 同事之間的閤作和競爭關係微妙 好奇如果有本從boston角度來講(vs. Berkeley)會是怎麼個態度 Isaacson很是細節之王 多少年前的事情 估計當事人都記不清楚瞭 他能寫細緻至極 feminism貫穿瞭整本書 最後幾章講gene editing moral的有點散
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